Vamosatya Jewish Cemetery
Cemetery Information
Country
Hungary
Region
Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg
District
Vásárosnaményi
Settlement
Vámosatya
Site address
The Jewish cemetery is located next to the municipal cemetery.
GPS coordinates
48.20165, 22.41457
Perimeter length
197 metres. The perimeter is approximate.
Is the cemetery demolished
no
Type and height of existing fence
No fence
Preservation condition
Unfenced Jewish cemetery
General site condition
The cemetery is not overgrown, but the grass was very dry.
Number of existing gravestones
15 gravestones: 8 standing & 7 broken or pedestal bases.
Date of oldest tombstone
1874
Date of newest tombstone
1909
Urgency of erecting a fence
High
Land ownership
Property of local community
Preserved construction on site
No
Drone surveys
No
Historical overview
The Jewish cemetery of Vámosatya was established as early as 1874, since the oldest tombstone found in the cemetery back to that year. The latest tombstone was erected in 1909. The cemetery has not been fenced.
The first Jews settled in Vámosatya at the beginning of the 19th century. The Jewish population in 1840 was 29 and increased to 63 in 1880 and 74 1910. By 1941, their population decreased to 27. Following the differences between the Orthodox and the Maskilim at the Jewish Congress in 1869 which resulted in the Schism in Hungarian Jewry, the community joined the Orthodox stream. The Jews of Vámosatya mainly worked in the fruit trade. According to the Yad Vashem database, about 39 Jews from Vámosatya were murdered in the Holocaust.
